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"Late Summer Magic" With Charles Busch At Club Helsinki

This Sunday at 7pm, Helsinki on Broadway - in association with Showstoppers New York -presents Charles Busch in a cabaret evening entitled Late Summer Magic. He performed at Club Helsinki in Hudson, NY last fall and returns by popular demand. He will be joined by musical director and accompanist, Tom Judson.

Charles Busch is an acclaimed actor, Tony-nominated playwright, and drag legend. His show at Club Helsinki is full of personal stories, original characters and classic songs; all perfumed with his own unique form of glamour.

  A few of his dozens of plays are Die! Mommie! Die!, Psycho Beach Party, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, and Tale of the Allergists Wife - which ran for 777 performances on Broadway, won Mr. Busch the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award and received a Tony nomination for Best Play. The film versions of Die! Mommie! Die! and Psycho Beach Party have strong cult followings, and he is the subject of the documentary film The Lady in Question is Charles Busch.

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.
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